Kenneth Myers
Sr. Data Engineer
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKenneth Myers is a Senior Data Engineer in New York with 10 years of experience transitioning from hands-on data science into production-scale data engineering. He has led streaming fraud model development and large ETL pipelines at Capital One, collaborating with model risk and MLE teams, and now applies that expertise at 84.51˚. Comfortable across the full data lifecycle, he combines statistical modeling, Spark and Airflow engineering, and feature design for rare-event detection. Kenneth contributes pragmatic back-end code in open source—extending a popular Twitter automation bot with robust error handling and modular refactors—illustrating his knack for practical automation and maintainable code. He holds a BS in Chemistry and Applied Math & Statistics and pursued graduate studies in Computer Science, a mix that underpins his analytical rigor and systems-level thinking. Colleagues describe him as a practical problem solver who bridges modeling nuance with production reliability.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Chemistry and Applied Mathematics and Statistics, 3.78, Bachelor of Science (BS), Chemistry and Applied Mathematics and Statistics, 3.78 at SUNY Stony BrookMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Github Skills (7)
api10
python10
apidoc10
twitter-api10
automation9
automations9
software-design8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
rhiever/TwitterFollowBot
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
A Python bot that automates several actions on Twitter, such as following users and favoriting tweets.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Kenneth focused on extending the functionality of a Twitter bot. They implemented new methods, such as `auto_fav_then_follow`, `auto_fav_phrase`, `auto_rt_phrase`, and `auto_follow_from_phrase`. These additions included favoriting, retweeting, and following based on search phrases, with related error handling. The user also refactored and consolidated existing functionalities to improve code structure and maintainability.
python-bottwitter
kennethjmyers/Top-Reddit-Posts
Apr 2023 - Apr 2024
Portfolio project demonstrating Data Engineering and Science in AWS environments
Contributions:4 reviews, 50 PRs, 110 pushes in 1 year
aws-environmentdata-engineering
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